35. “Medicinal Fried Chicken” (Season 14, Episode 3)
“Medicinal Fried Chicken” is one of the absolute grossest episodes of “South Park” — in a good way. Inspired by the rise of medical marijuana, the episode focuses on the events around town when fast food chain KFC gets shut down across Colorado due to fast food laws. Cartman is furious and begins suffering from withdrawls of the food, while the conversion of the town’s KFC into a medical marijuana dispensary leaves the adults of “South Park” excited. Desperate to qualify, Randy gives himself testicular cancer by exposing his balls to microwave radiation — which has disasterous consequences when they grow to insanely huge sizes. The site of Randy’s gigantic balls are absolutely disgusting, but results in some great physical comedy, and the episode’s parody of the lengths people will go for legal weed manages to bridge the divide between “funny because its smart” and “funny because its stupid.”
Episode MVP: KFC mascot Colonel Sanders, who squares off against Cartman in a “Scarface” parody where Cartman is Tony Montana and he is Alejandro Sosa in a drug war…over KFC’s fried chicken.